Three things you didn’t know about… September 28, 2014 CEO of Metro Bank Craig Donaldson 1 While living in Kenya for almost two years, Donaldson was held up by a gunman, but that didn’t stop him falling in love with both the country and continent. 2 He has sat with gorillas in Zaire (now the Republic of Congo), chimpanzees in the Rwenzori Mountains of [...]
Theatre review: Teh Internet is Serious Business, The Royal Court September 26, 2014 IT’S HARD to know what the greying grandees of London theatre criticism would have made of Teh Internet is Serious Business, a play that revels in an online world of memes and trolls, cheeseburger-demanding cats, socially awkward penguins and condescending Willy Wonkas. But what appears as incomprehensible nonsense to most, makes perfect sense to a [...]
High Celebrity to strike for Fabre in Cheveley Park Stakes September 25, 2014 HIGH CELEBRITY was an expensive failure when Andre Fabre sent her from France to Newmarket in July, but can make amends there in tomorrow’s Cheveley Park Stakes (3.10pm). She was back to winning ways impressively in a Group Three at Chantilly last time and will get a great toe into the race from favourite Tiggy [...]
Barnet is a more than fair bet to land Ayr Gold September 18, 2014 THE William Hill Ayr Gold Cup (3.50pm) takes centre stage this weekend and I’m going to put my faith in sprint king David Nicholls landing the race for a seventh time with his sole entry BARNET FAIR. The six-year-old was a decent winner at Goodwood last month and promising apprentice Cam Hardie is reunited with [...]
Where to drink in the City: The changing face of Square Mile nightlife September 17, 2014 The City of London: engine-room for the country’s economy, working place of some of the most powerful decision-makers in the Western world. But the Square Mile is strangely anachronistic in terms of its watering holes. If you fancy a drink after work, the choice has tended to be between good old spit and sawdust boozers [...]
Cheetah robot can run and jump just like a big cat based on new algorithm September 15, 2014 Not content with creating a robot able to fold itself up like origami, or the human-like Baxter which can farm in space, scientists have made a robot that is able to run and jump just like a cheetah. MIT researchers have created an algorithm which mimics the movements of the big cat and programmed it [...]
Tesco beware: Aldi to double UK store count September 11, 2014 Tesco beware – Aldi has set its sights on the UK as a market ripe for growth, and it's backing its expansion plans with £70m. The budget supermarket today announced plans to almost double the number of stores in the UK from 531 to 1,000, and expand its UK headquarters in Atherstone, Warwickshire. The [...]
Music Master can hit the right notes in Haydock’s Sprint Cup September 4, 2014 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS TOMORROW’S RACING AND BEN CLEMINSON LOOKS AHEAD TO SWITZERLAND V ENGLAND ON MONDAY THE DEFECTION of Europe’s best six-furlong sprinter Slade Power from tomorrow’s Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock (3.50pm) has taken some of the gloss off the famous Group One sprint, but it has opened the contest up and it will [...]
Coding for schools: How to code like a five-year-old September 1, 2014 This week thousands of children returned to school to find themselves faced with a new subject: computer programming. England's five-year-olds are the only ones in the G20 to be taught programming, in a move the government hopes will turn the nation's children into budding tech entrepreneurs. But children at academies may be spared the new [...]
A draw is best buoyant Arsenal can hope for at Goodison Park August 21, 2014 BEN CLEMINSON PREVIEWS THE PREMIER LEAGUE ACTION AND BILL ESDAILE GIVES US HIS RACING BETS FOR TOMORROW ARSENAL fans have every right to be optimistic at the moment. The once tight-fisted Arsene Wenger splashed the cash again – on Alexis Sanchez, Mathieu Debuchy, David Ospina and Calum Chambers – and the Gunners have made a [...]